A/N: So I'm actually still dealing with a writer's block at the moment but I did manage to carve out this scene a few months ago, this scene was easy to pull off because of how often I visualized it in my head. This is just an attempt to let you folks know that I haven't given up on the story, but I've also been leaning towards just canceling out plans to remake Turnabout Goodbyes into this story, because if I were to take out the humor that was the present in the game, the same case would essentially be playing in my head. Rise from the Ashes on the other hand, I've been having ideas still playing in my head on how I wanna make it different. So with that said, this scene will probably be all that you will get for Turnabout Goodbyes because I don't know where to go with it. Hope you'll enjoy it and hope you're having a good day.

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Phoenix didn't expect the after party to last all night the way it did, if anything he expected to just have maybe three to four drinks and then call a cab back home with just him and his lady love. Sure he may have been able to make it home safe, but he came home so drunk that he didn't even have the energy to have celebratory sex with Maya the way he promised her that night.

It had been five o'clock in the morning that he woke up with the intention to reach for her side of the bed, but instead found a cold sheet which alerted him in a finger snap. Phoenix turned on his bedside lamp to see a note on the pillow, which laid underneath a simple red rose. Instinctively, Phoenix picked up that note along with the red rose. There had been signs of tear stains on the note but he was still able to see what she had read:

Beloved Phoenix Wright,

By the time you have waken up and read this, I will have taken the early morning train back to the Kurain Mountains with the intention to continue my training. I felt that I have failed Mia, Edgeworth, Briscoe, Reagan, but most importantly, I felt that I had failed you. I meant to tell you last night, but I could not ruin the celebrations that we were having and I didn't want to argue with you either.

With me going back to my training, I know I will come back a full-fledged medium and will do everything in my power to make you and my sister proud. I also know that there's no doubt in my mind that you will wait for me to return, for I see it in your eyes and your heart, that you want to stay with me, to grow old with me and to start a family with me. And in truth I want it with you too, that's why I must leave you for now so I can grow up to be your equal, to grow up to be the woman I want to be for you.

Know that I love you with all my heart and I promise that even though many will try, they will know that same heart belongs to no one but you.

XOXO

Maya Fey

It only took Phoenix a few seconds to get himself dressed, this time with just a long white shirt and blue jeans with tennis shoes. He immediately reached for his cellphone to dial Mia's number.

"I imagine that this is important?" Mia asked with some grogginess.

"Maya might still be at the train station, Chief," Phoenix said as he grabbed his personal car keys. "You gotta meet me over there at once."

That got Mia on high alert, "Why would she be at the train station?"

Technically Phoenix still hadn't told his partner about the relationship that he had started with Maya, but he didn't have time to hide it now, so he told her the truth about the letter that was left on the pillow. It would take Mia a while to grasp at what was just told to her but knew she had to put it away for now, for the sake of not wasting time.

"For the record, I'm not mad at you, Phoenix. But I still want to have a discussion about this at some point."

Phoenix agreed to have that discussion with her as he hung up his phone and put it back in his pocket. Neither Fey nor Wright knew the outcome of what might happen, whether they would convince Maya to stay. But in case they didn't, they at least wanted to give her a proper goodbye before she left.

Both Phoenix and Mia arrived at the train station almost simultaneously, to the point of parking side by side each other in their respective cars. They were even in line with their steps as they made a brisk pace to the designated train that would be going straight to the Kurain Mountains. But when they got to the train that was still loading passengers, they didn't see Maya anywhere.

"We're too late, Phoenix," Mia said in a light huff. "She's gone."

"Well at least we know she was definite in her decision." Phoenix began to turn around to look for a bench. It gave him a slight shock to see Maya standing right in front of him.

"Nick...sis."

It was Mia's turn to move her head around and look at her sister, standing in front of them with her traditional spirit medium robes and a simple rolling suitcase. It was only a full minute, but it felt that time stood still as they gazed at each other.

"So..." it was Phoenix who decided to speak up first. "There's no convincing you to stay?"

Maya gave her lover a slight nod, "What good is a spirit medium, when I can't even talk to a spirit? I felt nothing but useless throughout this whole entire case."

"You're wrong, sister!" It wasn't exactly a yell from Mia but it was still loud enough to get Phoenix and Maya's attention, she soon lowered her voice to a more in-door level. "If anything, you were a saving grace in helping us solve the DL-6 Incident."

To prove her point, she dug out her phone and accessed the Court Records app and found the lone bullet that was recovered during the DL-6 Incident. The same bullet that eventually brought Manfred Von Karma down. Mia presented the said bullet to her little sister, making no effort to hide the pride on her face.

"von Karma was more than convinced that he had taken every piece of evidence pertaining to the DL-6 Incident," Mia let her sister hold the smartphone at the palm of her hands. "Because of you body blocking Phoenix from von Karma, you were able to save the last piece of evidence that we needed to save Edgeworth...you saved the case, Maya."

Maya took a good hard look at her big sisters cell phone and actually began to feel warm inside at the fact that even with her own rookie flaws, Mia was still able to find a silver lining for her, especially since technically Maya knew she was telling the truth. It did put some additional weight on whether or not she wanted to change her mind and stay with her sister and the man she loved. But even then it outweighed the fact that, her two great loves had already achieved their dreams and were already living their lives. She wanted her own dream life as well, she wanted to become intellectual equals with her sister and her boyfriend. So when she heard the intercom say that the train was beginning departure in five minutes, her decision had been finalized.

"I'll come back to you, sister," with a wet smile, she handed Mia's phone back to the palm of her hands. "I'll keep that promise in my heart."

Mia began to nod as she put her phone back in her pocket without protest, she was about to reply before Phoenix began to say something.

"Well if you're going to go away, Maya..." Phoenix began to move closer to Maya's space before turning his head back to look at Mia. "Chief, there's something that you need to know about Maya and me."

The next thing Maya knew, she was drawn into a kiss that was warm, deep, tender and full of love. There had been some discussion between the two lovers on when would be a good time for them to come out in their relationship to Mia. But to Phoenix, if there was any a good time to do that coming out, it had to be now. He had to send his boss a message that he was in love with her younger sister, the young woman who woken him up to love that he had originally buried a few years ago.

He eventually parted his lips from her to give her room to get ready for the train. Nothing more needed to be said as Maya picked up her suitcase and entered her train with a tearful smile as she looked back at her two loves one last time while the door closed. Phoenix Wright had absently followed her to the train car and stopped short of the sliding doors closing between them, he gently placed his palm on the window screen while Maya did the same with her hand. It was their silent way of telling each other 'I love you' and 'I'll wait for you'.

Eventually the train had began to leave the station and Phoenix turned his head to look at his boss, throughout the entire scene being played out with her partner kissing her sister and silently declaring their love for each other, it left Mia completely speechless at first. But her heart told her to stay out of the way and to trust that Phoenix would at least have a conversation about this.

"If you'll pay for breakfast, I'll explain everything for you," was what Phoenix began to say to her.

"Actually Nick, I had a very strong feeling there was something up between you two," Mia replied as she began her way to the station exit. "But yes, I do want us to have a talk about this and go from there."